ESL preschoolers' English vocabulary acquisition from storybook reading

By Molly F. Collins. 2005

115 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/535e5774ab27b19aa316136106a8b0abdabb37ba

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

In Language and Linguistics

Citations in the corpus

Advancing Early Literacy Learning for All Children (2010, background): “Overemphasizing decoding skills and minimizing the role of oral language in literacy development is problematic for all young children and consequential for DLLs, as their need for deep knowledge of words (Francis, Rivera, Lesaux, Kieffer, & Rivera, 2006; Verhallen & Schoonen, 1998) is addressed by ”
The Effects of Multimedia-Enhanced Instruction on the Vocabulary of English-Language Learners and Non-English-Language Learners in Pre-Kindergarten Through Second Grade (2009, background): “Research suggests that vocabulary instruction that works for non-ELLs works as well if not better for ELLs (August & Shanahan, 2006; Carlo et al., 2004; Collins, 2005; Silverman, 2007a).”
Supporting Young Children’s Vocabulary Growth: The Challenges, the Benefits, and Evidence-Based Strategies (2011, background): “Collins (2005) found that storybook reading is an effective medium for teaching English Language Learners and that when new vocabulary words were explained to preschoolers who were English Language Learners, it resulted in significant gains in new vocabulary acquisition.”
Promoting Language and Literacy in Young Dual Language Learners: Research, Practice, and Policy (2011, background): “meanings explicitly in different linguistic contexts, with repetition and multiple opportunities to use the words (Collins, 2005; Silverman, 2007).”
Interactive Book Reading in Early Education: A Tool to Stimulate Print Knowledge as Well as Oral Language (2009, unknown): “…were not the main focus, but book reading motivated teaching vocabulary (e.g., Ard & Beverly, 2004; Beck & McKeown, 2007; Biemiller & Boote, 2006; Collins, 2005; Elley, 1989; Justice, Meier, & Walpole, 2005; Penno, Wilkinson, & Moore, 2002; Sénéchal, Thomas, & Monker, 1995) or reading strategies…”
Parent–child reading in English as a second language: Effects on language and literacy development of Chinese kindergarteners (2009, background): “…parent–child interactions at home, and parents’ specific behaviours during second-language storybook reading influence children’s language skills (e.g. Collins, 2005), we expected that dialogic reading could enhance second-language learning in similar ways to those demonstrated for first-language…”